A defense lawyer for former Liberian President Charles Taylor told the Special Court for Sierra Leone Monday that potential defense witnesses are refusing to testify for the defense because they fear the...

The convincing victory of conservative French Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy over Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal in the French presidential run-off election Sunday means that the incoming French...

The Turkish parliament opened debate Monday on an amendment to the Turkish constitution that would see the country's president elected by a popular vote rather than by members of parliament, as is current practice. The move comes the...

The Iraqi High Tribunal heard closing arguments Sunday from defense lawyers in the genocide trial of Ali Hassan al-Majid and other former officials in the Saddam Hussein [JURIST...

Suspended Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry appeared Sunday to raise the stakes in his defense against President Pervez Musharraf's charges of abusing authority, telling tens of thousands of supporters at a Lahore rally that...

A report released Sunday by Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem and the HaMoked Centre for the Defence of the Individual says that the members of the Israeli security services routinely maltreat Palestinian detainees during...

The government of Ecuador has set up a truth commission to investigate rights abuses committed in the country beginning in the early 1980s, a period that includes the 1984-88 presidency of right wing politician...

A retired Indonesian general widely blamed for rights abuses committed by pro-Indonesian militias on the former Indonesian island territory of East Timor after an independence referendum in 1999 told an Indonesian-Timorese truth commission Saturday that it was...

Turkey's Office of the General Prosecutor is investigating Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for possible legal violations after he allegedly criticized the country's Constitutional Court following a controversial ruling earlier this week, CNN Turk...

A new Pentagon survey of the mental health of deployed US Army and Marine Corps troops in Iraq released Friday shows that a significant percentage approve of abusing and even torturing Iraqi non-combatants, finding that "only 47 percent...